The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FLEAs, one who has tried it asserts, may be
driven away by scattering flour of sulphur lib
orally about.
| BRIGHToN, ENG, is the largest summer resort
| in the world. Its real season is in September
| and October.
! FIREFLIEs and katydids are articles of trade
in oriental countries. They are sold in Japan
| in little bamboo cages for &c.
The customs revenues of all the nations of the
world in 1891 amounted to &1106 900, of which
! Europe contributed EOS, 900 and the United
| States e26,030,000.
THE principals of schools in Germany and
Switzerland are required TO dismiss their pupils
at noon every day on which the Thermometer at
| 10 O'Clock registers 77o.
! A PEoMAN has collected 400 empty paper
| coffee packages of New York firm and sent
| them east with the expectation of securing one
of the prizes offered by the company.
Color BLINDNESS is twice as common among
| Quakers as it is among the rest of the commu-
| nifty, owing to their having dressed i'll drab for
| generations, and thus disused the color sense.
A CARRIER PIGEON flew into a carpenter shop
in Johnstown. Iowa, the other day, and to its
leg was attached paper saying: If shot or
! caught, please send nur0her to K. E. Starr, No.
| 70 Cortland street, New York"
A TRUNK went over the Michigan Central rail
road recently which printed: Carrie
| Crittendon BlooA and fire! Salvation Army
| God is Love. Repent or Perish!'' 1t is needless
| to say that Miss Carrie is shining light in the
| army.
HORSE, Prince" that was presented to
| Gen. Kimball by citizens of Fitchburg, Mass,
in 1862, and used by him all through the Louisi-
ana campaign of 1863, was ridden by the Cen
| eral at the annual reunion of the veterans of
the Fifty third Regiment of Massachusetts Vol
unteers at Fitchburg, last week. Prince is
now % years old and in good condition.
THE Philadelphia Ne,os estimates that there
will be 900 strangers in that city during the
| Centennial 1t further estimates that 10000 Of
| the go 900 houses in Philadelphia can accommo
] date an average of seven boarders each, which
| dsposes of 10000 of the visitors. There art
| 10 hotels which can accommodate 10000 more
| and 10000 will be quartered on their friends,
| This leaves but 5, 900 to shift for themselves as
best they can
THE gondolierS of Venice have struck against
| the competition of the steamers which have
been fast taking their place on the canals. A
| few years ago they numbered as many as 1000
| out of a population of 10000. Since the steam
| launches have been introduced the number has
| been greatly reduced. The little monopoly they
| possessed was after sunset when the steamers
were not allowed to ply. The municipality re-
moved this prohibition, and the poor gondoliers
I struck
Mr.. ERIC BRUCE who has worked out the idea
of signaling at night by captive balloon lighted
| inside by electric incaudescent lamps, has just
completed one for the Belgian government
Mr. Bruce'S latest balloon is fifteen feet in di-
ameter and 1000 cubic feet in capacity 1t is
| made of vanished cambria, and is translucent.
Six Edison and Swan-lamps of eight to ten can
| die power are mounted inside, and the current
| is supplied by an E. P. S. accumulation of TWEEN
ty-five cells of the eleven type in teakboxes
| WHEN the Emperor Charles v of Spain re-
tired to the monastery of st. Yuste he took with
him Torriano, his clock-maker, in order to while
| away the time by constructing the movements
| of clocks. So wonderful were some of the
pieces of work which they made that the monks
could not believe any one except the devil had a
| hand in them until the machinery was shown to
| them by the eX-Emperor. 1t was ordered by
| Charles that when he should die all of these
clocks should cease running, and it is said TO be
| a fact that his orders were obeyed.
THE Royal Meteorological Society is DESTROYS
of obtaining photographs of flashes of lightning,
as it is believed that great deal of research on
| this subject can only he pursued by means of
| the camera. If a rapid dry plate and ordi-
nary rapid doublet with full aperture be left I'M
covered at night during thunder storm for a
short time, flashes of light will, after develop
| ment, be found in some cases to have impressed
| themselves upon the plate. The only difficulty
| is the uncertainty whether any particular flash
will happen to have been in the field of view.
| NEWPORT, KY, now claims to have the finest
stock of carrier pigeons in the country. Three
| of those birds belonging to Mr. F. Brassinet, of
that city, whose sire won the match from Rome
Italy, to Brussels, in $780, and captured the 5000
francs prize, were liberated at Little Rock, Ark
| Friday morning last and reached home in the
| evening in Just eleven hours and five minutes
The distance, in direct line, between the two
points is between $50 and 500 miles. There was
! but twenty minutes difference between the ar
riS al of the first and last of the three flyers Mr.
| Brassinet stands ready to match his birds
| against all corners.
THIRTEEN consumptive patients in Albany, n
| Y, have teen treated after Bergeon's method
without success. Two physicians, in reporting
the case for Medical annals, state that after
| fair trial, lasting from q fortnight to a month
| the treatment was abandoned. No good results
| followed, and the patients suffered so much
| from the gaseous emanata that they begged for
| the dscontinuance of the treatment. The Ber-
| geon method is most emphatically condemned
| by these physicians, who seem to have made an
honest effort to test its efficiency. This will be
bad news for consumptives, who were hoping
that permanent cure for phthisis had been
discovered.
YOUNG MAN at Fort Popham Me, the other
day caught a cod which weighed probably thirty
pounds, and which he placed in a large hogs
head and so kept it alive. When the party went
| into the water the young man harneSsed up the
cod with stout Irvine and placed him in the
water. He had great deal of SPORT and
finally, after considerable persuasion. allowed a
young lady to try his Sea-horSe life preServer
was procured and fastened on her, and she
grasped the reins holding the large cod The
fish struck out for deep water at a rapid pace
The young lady, becoming uneasy dropped the
reins, but they caught in her feet, and if party
had not gone to her rescue in sailboat the re-
suit would have been disastrous.
A FEW days since gentleman Of Cumberland
county, Va, near Boswell's depot, on the Rich
mond and Allegheny railroad, missed cow He
searched for her, and when he found her she
had given birth to what should have been a calf
and yet with all other formations of SUCH from
the shoulder out was to BE- seen the neck and
head of a woman with all the symmetry thereof
and, furthermore, the hair on this strange head
was parted, or had gracefully fallen back on
each side as ladies' usu j part theirs. The nose,
eyes and other features OF its face were as clear
ly and beautifully developed as those of a
woman. In word. from the shoulder out was
human in form and the body that of a beast
The creature was dead, but the truth of this
statement can be verified by gentlemen of
veracity.
CONTRIBUTION boxes placed at various points
in the Colonial Exhibition in aid of the London
hospital received, all told ef0I, which sum con-
sisted of few gold coins, a larger number of
silver. but mostly of pennies, half pennies and
farthings; 2S7 old or defaced British coins: 423
foreign cOinS-Indian. FpVptian Eranah Pc